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The Dean of Worcester is the head of the Chapter

Chapter (religion)

Chapter designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Nordic Lutheran churches....

of Worcester Cathedral

Worcester Cathedral

Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England; situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester...

in Worcester

Worcester

The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The most current Dean

Dean (religion)

A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church.-Anglican Communion:...

is the Very Rev

Very Reverend

The Very Reverend is a style given to certain religious figures.*In the Roman Catholic Church, by custom, priests who hold positions of particular note: e.g...

Peter Gordon Atkinson

The Very Rev Peter Gordon Atkinson is the current Dean of Worcester. He was born on 26 August 1952 and educated at St John's College, Oxford. Ordained in 1980 his first post was a curacy in Clapham after which he was Priest-in-charge of St Mary, Tatsfield. He was then Rector of Holy Trinity, Bath,...

who lives at The Deanery, College Green, Worcester.

List of Deans

Name	Dates	Previous post	Subsequent post
Henry Holbeach Henry Holbeach Henry Holbeach was an English clergyman who served as the last Prior and first Dean of Worcester, a suffragan bishop, and diocesan bishop of two Church of England dioceses.-Life:...	1541-1544	Last prior of Worcester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England; situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester... Priory
John Barlow	1544-1553		Deprived under Mary Mary I of England Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...
Philip Hawford Philip Hawford Philip Hawford alias Ballard was the parish priest at Elmley Lovett Worcestershire He was also the last Abbot of Evesham And also Dean of Worcester-Life:Philip Hawford became Abbott of Evesham Abbey by preferment...	1553-1557	Last Cellarer of Evesham Abbey Evesham Abbey Evesham Abbey was founded by Saint Egwin at Evesham in England between 700 and 710 A.D. following a vision of the Virgin Mary by Eof.According to the monastic history, Evesham came through the Norman Conquest unusually well, because of a quick approach by Abbot Æthelwig to William the Conqueror... before the Dissolution
Seth Holland Seth Holland Seth Holland was an English Roman Catholic churchman, Dean of Worcester and Warden of All Souls' College, Oxford under Queen Mary, but imprisoned in the Marshalsea under Elizabeth I, where he died.-Life:...	1557-1559	Also warden of All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....	Deprived of office under Elizabeth Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
John Pedder	1559-1571	President of St Johns College, Oxford
Thomas Wilson	1571-1586
Francis Willis	1586-1597	President of St Johns College, Oxford 1577-90
Richard Edes Richard Edes Richard Edes was an English churchman. He became Dean of Worcester, and was nominated one of the translators for the Authorised King James Version, in the Second Oxford Company, but died in the earliest stages of the project....	1597-1604
James Montague James Montague (bishop) James Montague was an English bishop.-Life:He was the son of Sir Edward Montague of Boughton, and grandson of Edward Montagu....	1604-1608	Dean of Lichfield	Bishop of Bath and Wells Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.The present diocese covers the vast majority of the county of Somerset and a small area of Dorset. The Episcopal seat is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in...
Arthur Lake	1608-1616		Bishop of Bath and Wells Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.The present diocese covers the vast majority of the county of Somerset and a small area of Dorset. The Episcopal seat is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in...
Joseph Hall	1616-1627		Bishop of Exeter Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The incumbent usually signs his name as Exon or incorporates this in his signature....
William Juxon William Juxon William Juxon was an English churchman, Bishop of London from 1633 to 1649 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1660 until his death.-Life:...	1627-1633	President of St Johns College, Oxford	Bishop of London Bishop of London The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 458 km² of 17 boroughs of Greater London north of the River Thames and a small part of the County of Surrey...
Roger Maynwaring Roger Maynwaring Roger Maynwaring was an English bishop, known for his support for absolutism.-Life:He was born in Shropshire, and educated at Worcester grammar, and All Souls College, Oxford. He became rector of St Giles in the Fields in 1616.He was made a royal chaplain in 1626...	1633-1636		Also Bishop of St David's Bishop of St David's The Bishop of St David's is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St David's.The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St David's in Pembrokeshire, founding St David's Cathedral. The current Bishop of St...
Christopher Potter Christopher Potter Christopher Potter was an English academic and clergyman, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, controversialist and prominent supporter of William Laud.-Life:...	1636-1646	Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford
Richard Holdsworth Richard Holdsworth Richard Holdsworth was an English academic theologian, and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1637 to 1643...	1646-1649	Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary...
	1649-1660	No dean during the Interregnum
John Oliver John Oliver (Dean of Worcester) John Oliver was an English royalist churchman, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of Worcester.-Life:He was born in Kent, and matriculated from Merton College, Oxford, on 26 January 1616. He became a demy of Magdalen College on 7 April 1619, graduated B.A. on 11 December 1619, and...	1660-1661	President of Magdalene College, Oxford until 1647
Thomas Warmestry	1661-1665
William Thomas William Thomas (bishop) Rt. Rev. William Thomas D.D. was a Welsh Anglican bishop, serving as Bishop of St David's and Bishop of Worcester.-Life:...	1665-1683		Also Bishop of St David's Bishop of St David's The Bishop of St David's is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St David's.The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St David's in Pembrokeshire, founding St David's Cathedral. The current Bishop of St...
George Hickes George Hickes George Hickes was an English divine and scholar.-Biography:Hickes was born at Newsham, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, in 1642...	1683-1691		Suspended at the Glorious Revolution Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, is the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau...
William Talbot	1691-1715	Also Bishop of Oxford Bishop of Oxford The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford... from 1699	Bishop of Salisbury Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset...
Francis Hare Francis Hare (bishop) Francis Hare was an English churchman and classical scholar, bishop of St Asaph from 1727 and bishop of Chichester from 1731.-Life:...	1715-1726	Dean of St Paul's Dean of St Paul's The Dean of St Paul's is the head of the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in London, England in the Church of England. The most recent Dean, Graeme Knowles, formerly Bishop of Sodor and Man, was installed on 1 October 2007 and resigned on 31 October 2011...	Bishop of St Asaph Bishop of St Asaph The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.The diocese covers the counties of Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The Episcopal seat is located in the Cathedral Church of St Asaph in the town of...
James Stillingfleet	1726-1746
Edmund Marten	1746-1751
John Waugh	1751-65
Richard Wrottesley	1765-1769
William Digby	1769-1778		Dean of Durham
Robert Foley	1778-1783
St Andrew St John	1783-1795	NB: son of the 11th Lord St John of Bletso John St John, 11th Baron St John of Bletso John St John of Northwood, 12th Baron St John of Bletso was a British peer.St John was the eldest son of John St John, 11th Baron St John of Bletso and his wife Elizabeth Crowley, daughter of Sir Ambrose Crowley of Greenwich. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford...
Arthur Onslow	1795-1817
John Jenkinson	1817-1825		Bishop of St David's Bishop of St David's The Bishop of St David's is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St David's.The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St David's in Pembrokeshire, founding St David's Cathedral. The current Bishop of St...
James Hook	1825-1828
George Murray George Murray (bishop of Rochester) George Murray was a British churchman, Archdeacon of Man, Dean of Worcester, Bishop of Sodor and Man and Bishop of Rochester.-Background and education:...	1828-1845	Also Bishop of Rochester Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers the west of the county of Kent and is centred in the city of Rochester where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin...
John Peel	1845-1874
The Hon Grantham Yorke	1874-1879
Lord Alwyne Compton	1879-1886		Bishop of Ely Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the...
John Gott John Gott (bishop) John Gott was the third Bishop of Truro from 1891 until his death in 1906.Gott was born in Leeds on Christmas Day 1830 and educated at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford and then embarked on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Great Yarmouth after which he held incumbencies at Bramley...	1886-1891		Bishop of Truro Bishop of Truro The Bishop of Truro is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in the Province of Canterbury.The present diocese covers the county of Cornwall and it is one of the most recently created dioceses of the Church of England...
Robert Forrest	1891-1908
William Moore Ede William Moore Ede William Moore Ede was an Anglican priest in the 20th century.Moore Ede was educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1873. After an early appointment as Superintendent Lecturer for the Midland Counties he held incumbencies at Gateshead and Whitburn...	1908-1934		retired; died 1935
Arthur Davies	1934-1949		retired; died 1966
William Beck	1949-1957
Bobby Milburn	1957-1968
Eric Kemp	1969-1974		Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Chichester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the Counties of East and West Sussex. The see is in the City of Chichester where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity...
Tom Baker	1975-1986		Retired; died 2000
Robert Jeffery	1987-1996		Sub-dean of Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...
Peter Marshall	1996-2006		Retired
Peter Atkinson	2006–present

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